Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov’s Instagram account is flooded with photos of the most bizarre deep sea beings ever. He works on a fishing trawler in Murmansk (extreme northwest of Russia), and uses his phone to document the funny and monstrous creatures that get pulled in the fishing nets.

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Wow, some of these look like either ceramic or paper machaie……veery strange. Would scare me to bits if I was swimming and saw one.

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AnonymousNovember 20, 2018

lol here’s some stuff I killed.

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Not GaribaldiNovember 20, 2018

Aaaw <3

Roopert DeBearNovember 20, 2018

Do they come with chips?

MinaNovember 20, 2018

what is he doing fishing these. They come from the very deep sea. They are destroying the marine life with this kind of fishing.

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AnonymousNovember 20, 2018

Brilliant pictures. I would love identifications.

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HornblatNovember 20, 2018

What the Fookski — They all look so sad —

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Rick KingNovember 20, 2018

Has he discovered any new species or even found an abundance of food. Are these creatures rare to find? If they are new or rare species, they should not have been fished. (A photograph and description)

AnonymousNovember 20, 2018

what a shame they are no longer living thanks to him. and he says he loves fish!

AnonymousNovember 21, 2018

Most people aren’t realizing that he’s not purposely fishing up these types of fish; they get caught in his net while fishing for fish that we set on our plates. Inevitably, when pulling up these fish, you can’t toss them back into the ocean. They’re dead by the time they come to the surface from water pressure. If they are still alive somehow, tossing them back in wouldn’t help them, unfortunately. Most of the fish you see here are even severely deformed, as they’ve imploded due to the same pressure.

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Just Sayin'November 21, 2018

I imagine they look very different in the pressure deep underwater

nopeNovember 21, 2018

Nope

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AnonymousNovember 25, 2018

most of these are deep critters.. they’re dead by the time they’re brought up.

AnonymousSeptember 20, 2019

But didn’t that first one have a cameo in Men In Black?

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AnonymousNovember 11, 2019

Cool fish but probably or smart to constantly fish these as the pressure of being brought up to the surface instantly kills some of them and blinds others